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We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
Al Sharpton
Black
First
Willing
Cases
Give
Leaders
Most
Because
Them
Second
Second Chances
Chances
The main ingredient of the first quantum revolution, wave-particle duality, has led to inventions such as the transistor and the laser that are at the root of the information society.
Alain Aspect
First
Revolution
Society
Inventions
Main
Duality
Quantum
Led
Information
Ingredient
Root
Laser
The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.
Alain Ducasse
Christmas
Job
First
Dessert
Log
Classic
Kitchen
First Job
Most
French
Make
Around
Boy
Holidays
Flavors
Chocolate
Cream
Coconut
Butter
Two
What we typically call love is only the start of love. Our understanding of love has been hijacked and beguiled by its first distractingly moving moments.
Alain de Botton
Love
Love Is
First
Understanding
Our
Has-Been
Only
Hijacked
Call
Been
Moving
Moments
Start
Parent and child may both love, but - unbeknown to the child - each party is on a different end of the axis. This is why, in adulthood, when we first long for 'love', what we mean is that we want to 'be loved' as we were once loved by a parent.
Alain de Botton
Love
Long
First
Party
Once
Parent
Both
Adulthood
Were
End
Child
May
Different
Want
Loved
Mean
Each
Why
Axis
I made my first stage appearance when I was 6 months old.
Alan Alda
Old
Made
First
Stage
Months
Appearance
I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.
Alan Alda
Me
Made
First
Rich
Everyone
Never
Had
Knew
Supposed
Boy
Famous
Want
Wanted
Really
View
I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn't used up being born the first time.
Alan Alda
Time
Me
Woman
First
Young
Once
Born
Born-Again
Glad
Had
Hours
She
First Time
How
Up
Five
Being
Decided
Again
Young Woman
Plane
Next
Should
Used
Who
Sat
Bombarded
Her
We were all miners in our family. My father was a miner. My mother is a miner. These are miner's hands, but we were all artists, I suppose, really. But I was the first one who had the urge to express myself on paper rather than at the coalface.
Alan Bennett
Myself
Family
Mother
Father
First
Our
Miner
Paper
Miners
Rather
Had
Suppose
First One
Were
Than
Hands
Artists
Urge
Really
Who
Express
Thankfully, we live in country, unlike Russia, where we have First Amendment rights.
Alan Colmes
Rights
First
Country
Live
Unlike
Russia
First Amendment
First Amendment Rights
Amendment
Amendment Rights
Thankfully
Where
Macbeth was the first play I ever read.
Alan Cumming
First
Macbeth
Read
Ever
Play
In my first year at drama school, I did this kids' show called 'Let's See.'
Alan Cumming
School
First
Year
Drama
Drama School
Kids
See
Did
Show
'Macbeth' was the first play I ever read. In fact, I remember my brother Tom, who is six years older than me, coming home from school and telling me about it. He was the one that really got me going.
Alan Cumming
Home
Me
Remember
School
First
Older
Macbeth
Telling
Brother
About
Fact
He
Read
Got
Coming
Coming Home
Years
Than
Going
Six
In Fact
Really
Who
Tom
Ever
Play
I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year.
Alan Dean Foster
Time
Business
World
Try
First
Year
Purposes
Con
Make
First Time
Go
Decades
May
Convention
Again
Fantasy
Last
Two
Last Year
I never had a strategy about my life. I didn't have enough information to have a strategy. I'm the first person in my family to go to college. I had no family mentors.
Alan Dershowitz
Life
Family
College
My Life
First
Strategy
Enough
About
Mentors
Never
Had
First-Person
Go
Person
Information
Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.
Alan Dershowitz
Debate
First
Say
Able
First Of All
Well
Refuse
Should
Professor
Defend
Position
You can't think about terrorism without thinking about Palestinian terrorism. Palestinians began international terrorism. It started with them in 1968. They used it as the first resort, not the last resort. They invented it, they perfected it, they benefited from it and they taught the world how to use it and that it would be successful.
Alan Dershowitz
Terrorism
You
World
First
Think
Thinking
Resort
Would
Would-Be
About
Invented
Without
How
Began
Taught
Them
Successful
Use
Used
International
International Terrorism
Palestinian
Palestinians
Started
Last
If truth is the first victim of war, then read on - I've got some great lies for you this month.
Alan Gorrie
Truth
War
Great
You
Truth Is
First
Victim
Month
Lies
Some
Read
Got
Then
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
Alan Huffman
People
Space
First
Ocean
Late
Outer
Outer Space
Weighted
Bottomless
Until
Equivalent
Were
Lines
Up
Infinite
Probe
Century
Depths
Used
Many
Seas
Believed
Right
I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
Alan J. Pakula
Time
You
Passion
Try
First
Out
Had
Make
Sure
First Time
Doing
Going
Childlike
Avant-Garde
Film
Hardly
Career
When I first got to Apple, which was in '84, the Mac was already out, and 'Newsweek' contacted me and asked me what I thought of the Mac. I said, 'Well, the Mac is the first personal computer good enough to be criticized.'
Alan Kay
Good
Me
Thought
First
Enough
Mac
Out
Criticized
Computer
Well
Said
Got
Personal
Which
Newsweek
Asked
Apple
Our first responsibility is not to ourselves. Our first responsibility is to our country and to our God.
Alan Keyes
God
Responsibility
First
Country
Our
Ourselves
There's a charm, there's a rhythm, there's a soul to Jewish humor. When I first saw Richard Pryor perform, I told him, 'You're doing a Jewish act.'
Alan King
You
Soul
Humor
First
Saw
Charm
Perform
Him
Doing
Pryor
Rhythm
Richard
Richard Pryor
Act
Jewish
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
Alan King
Time
Oppression
Father
Thought
First
About
He
Wrote
Talked
Read
Because
First Time
Dickens
Things
Jewish
Comedy is an amazing calling. Once you get that first laugh, it's hard to turn away. Then, of course, you're hooked and you have to learn how to survive in the business.
Alan King
You
Business
Comedy
Amazing
First
Once
Hooked
Laugh
Calling
Learn
Course
How
Survive
Get
To Survive
Turn
Then
Hard
Away
And the thing that I always tried to do with important singers when I met them was to sit down and record everything they knew, give them a first real run-through of their art.
Alan Lomax
Art
First
Important
Met
Sit
Down
Everything
Tried
Record
Give
Knew
Singers
Always
Real
Them
Thing
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